Senior Manager, Audience Strategy & Activation

New York City, NY (On-site)

$180K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

You will own the development and activation of enterprise audience products and collaborate across Ad Sales, Analytics, Product, and Engineering to drive revenue through scalable audience solutions.

  • Own end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise audience products from intake to optimization.
  • Lead cross-functional partnerships to translate advertiser needs into scalable audience offerings.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Ad Sales, and client-facing teams to identify advertiser needs and develop scalable audience solutions that support revenue growth.
  • Develop and maintain a portfolio of enterprise audience products, including standardized audience definitions, audience packages, and reusable audience segments that can be leveraged across Hearst's consumer divisions.
  • Create compelling sales enablement materials—including audience one-pagers, audience profiles, methodology documentation, and pitch materials—that clearly communicate audience composition, scale, insights, and business value.
  • Collaborate with the VP, Audience Analytics to evaluate audience performance, identify new audience opportunities, and optimize audience offerings based on advertiser demand and campaign outcomes.
  • Coordinate the activation of enterprise audiences across advertising platforms (GAM), clean rooms, demand-side platforms (DSPs), data management platforms (DMPs), and other activation technologies.
  • Serve as the primary liaison between Audience Analytics, Ad Sales, Product, and Engineering, to ensure audiences are accurately built, documented, governed, and delivered.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise audience products, including intake, prioritization, governance, documentation, activation, and ongoing optimization.
  • Establish best practices, documentation standards, and governance processes for enterprise audience development and activation across Hearst.

Requirements

  • 6–10 years of experience in audience strategy, advertising technology, marketing technology, customer analytics, audience development, sales strategy, or digital media.
  • Strong understanding of digital advertising ecosystems, audience segmentation, identity resolution, audience activation, and consumer data products.
  • Experience partnering with Ad Sales, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Product, or Analytics teams to develop advertiser-facing solutions and support revenue-generating initiatives.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into scalable audience products and operational workflows.
  • Experience working with ad sales and other audience activation platforms, including CDPs, DMPs, DSPs, clean rooms, identity platforms, or other advertising technology solutions.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience evaluating audience performance, campaign effectiveness, and audience utilization.
  • Excellent project management and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate cross-functional initiatives across business and technical teams.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including experience creating executive presentations, sales collateral, and client-facing documentation.
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

Preferred

  • Preferred experience in publishing, digital media, advertising technology, audience measurement, first-party data strategies, or enterprise audience platforms.
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As one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies, Hearst has been leading with purpose and integrity and innovating for more than a century. With a mission to inform audiences and improve lives, the company’s portfolio includes global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing the maintenance of jets and helicopters; 35 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; more than 200 magazine editions around the world and ownership in cable television networks A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN. Leading with purpose, Hearst is always moving forward. With a commitment to the highest quality in our products and services, we’re investing in healthcare solutions to help improve patient outcomes and technology that curbs emissions. Our brands are providing vital analysis, data and software to the global financial services industry; delivering important service and investigative journalism; and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming. And we are dedicated to serving the communities it operates in, both civically and philanthropically.

Founded in 1981
New York, New York, USA
6.4K employees (1,993 in marketing)
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Senior Manager, Audience Strategy & Activation

CDS Global · New York City, NY · On-site